QUALITY OF SERVICE (QoS) PARAMETERS FOR CELLULAR MOBILE

TELEPHONE SERVICE

No Parameter Name Target Measurement method

1 Network Availability > 99 % Probing attempts withmobile services available

100
All probing attempts

ETSI TS 102-250-2

2 Point of < 0.5 % Number of blocked call attempts

Interconnect(POI) Total number of call attempts
Congestion another network another network 100

3 SDCCH/ Paging < 0.5 % Number of failed call attempts due

Channel Congestion signalling / paging 100
Total number of attempts

4 Call Connection <2% Number of failed call attempts

100
Failure Rate Totalnumber of attempts

5 Call Drop Rate <2% Number of calls droped

100
Total number of attempts

6. Call Setup Time < 10 sec Maximum Time taken for Voice service connection

(ETSI TS 102-250-2)

7 Service Coverage >=-75 Indoor

dBm
In-vehicle
>=-85
 dBm Outdoor- in city

>=-95
dBm

8 Voice Quality(Mean > 3.5 ITU Recommendation on Voice Quality testing

Opinion Score-MOS)
ITU-T P.862/862.1

9. Call Setup Success 98 % (1Telephone Service Non Accesibility ) 100

Rate (CSSR)
Unsuccessful Call Attempts
Telephone Service Non Accessibility=
All Call Attempts

10 Call Success Rate 95 % ( Number of attemptednumber of calls blockednumber of dropcal

(CSR) Total number of attempted calls

11 Handover Success 98 % Successful Handovers

100
Rate Total Handovers Requests

12 Minimum Data To be measured by service provider and reported to

Speed Rate the regulator

13 Average throughput > 80 % 80 % of the subscribed/advertised speed

for packet data

14 Ping round trip time < 300 ms T Packet ReceivedT Packet sent
(conversati
onal voice)
ITU-T E.804, 3GPP TS 22.105
< 200 ms
(video)
 < 400 ms
(data)

15 Attach failure Ratio <2% Unsuccesful attach attempts

100
All attach attempts

ITU-T E.804

16 Attach setup time 5 sec T Attach CompleteT Attach Request

ITU-T E.804

17 PDP Context <4% Unsuccesful PDP contexts activation attempts

100
activation failure All PDP Context activation attempts
ratio

ITU-T E.804

18 PDP Context 2 sec T PDP Context Activation CompleteT PDP Context Activation Request
activation time

ITU-T E.804

19 PDP context cut-off <1% PDP context losses not initiated by the user
100
ratio All successfully activated PDP contexts

ITU-T E.804

20 Data Call Access <2% Unsuccessfull data call accesses

100
Failure ratio All datacall access attempts

ITU-T E.804
21 Data call access < 10 sec T Successful Call AccessT Initiation of Data Call
time

ITU-T E.804

22 SMS Service 99 % Successful SMS service attempts

100
Accessibility All SMS service attempts

ITU-T E.804

23 SMS Access Delay 2 sec Receive

Send
TT

ITU-T E.804

24 SMS Completion 2% Unsuccessful received SMS

100
failure ratio All SMS service attempts

ITU-T E.804

25 SMS End-to-end 5 sec Receive

delivery time Send
TT

ITU-T E.804

26 SMS Receive 2% Non confirmed SMS reception

100
confirmation failure All SMS Service attempts
ratio
ITU-T E.804
27 SMS Receive 5 sec Receive
Confirmation time Send
T T

ITU-T E.804